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1.- First boot, all went OK. Setup country, xorg, network connection, internet, etc. Save on multisession CD/DVD disc. ALL OK.
2.- Boot of saved session: All load process went OK.
3.- Problems found:
3.1 Gxine 0.5.11. It freeze after a few minutes, when full screen is working.
The same was on Puppy-3.01 version.
3.2 Gxine 0.5.11 It can't show added subtitles (like srt, sub, txt archives) on an .avi movie.
Gxine 0.49 on Puppy-2.17.1 show all kind of subtitles without any problem and NO freezes.
3.3 zdrv_sfs and pup-save.sfs NO present on / Directory, on my CD/DVD multisession loaded.
On puppy-2.15CE , all xxx.sfs loads normally on / Directory.
This characteristic of Puppy-2.15CE is very importat for loaded new software in the form of XXX.sfs format.

Please put this bugs in consideration for the future Puppy 3.10CE version.

2) In Xvesa, the highest resolution possible is 800x600x16 (which sucks). Any higher resolution selection b0rks the wizard and dumps you to the command prompt.

3) Cannot find eth0 module. This is the first version of Puppy that I've had problems with the network config. BTW, the wizard scan feature didn't "find" the eepro100 module. Manually selecting that module didn't work, even though it was listed.

These are show stoppers for using v3.02-alpha-1 on this machine.

Concern:

BusyBox free reports 220-some-odd M of RAM used, with ~20M cached/buffered withnoappsloaded. This should be considered when advising n00bs as to which versions will run on low-RAM and/or legacy processor machines; as well as HD installation method._________________hangout: ##b0rked on irc.freenode.net
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3.3 zdrv_sfs and pup-save.sfs NO present on / Directory, on my CD/DVD multisession loaded.
On puppy-2.15CE , all xxx.sfs loads normally on / Directory.
This characteristic of Puppy-2.15CE is very importat for loaded new software in the form of XXX.sfs format.

For multisession CD/DVD you don't have a pup_save.sfs file.
I'm not sure what you're asking about for zdrv_302.sfs. Do you mean that at bootup you want it to copy from CD/DVD into ram, if there is plenty of ram? That is, at '/' in the ram, then be accessed from there. That's not really required though, as far as I can see?_________________http://bkhome.org/news/

2) In Xvesa, the highest resolution possible is 800x600x16 (which sucks). Any higher resolution selection b0rks the wizard and dumps you to the command prompt.

3) Cannot find eth0 module. This is the first version of Puppy that I've had problems with the network config. BTW, the wizard scan feature didn't "find" the eepro100 module. Manually selecting that module didn't work, even though it was listed.

These are show stoppers for using v3.02-alpha-1 on this machine.

Concern:

BusyBox free reports 220-some-odd M of RAM used, with ~20M cached/buffered withnoappsloaded. This should be considered when advising n00bs as to which versions will run on low-RAM and/or legacy processor machines; as well as HD installation method.

Ah, the HP Pavillion again! Is there any difference with running from CD? Don't suppose there would be.
Does '# modprobe eepro100' in a terminal load the module?_________________http://bkhome.org/news/

Added: I think the HP Pavilion problems above can be traced to the i810 and SDRAM timing. I've seen weird things on these which disappear when I test with faster RAM. Also, seen networking problems which happened there, but not with Intel chips on a PCI card.

Cannot test as CD burner bit the dust a while ago and haven't replaced it yet.

Quote:

Does '# modprobe eepro100' in a terminal load the module?

Nope. "FATAL: Module eepro100 not found."

prehistoric wrote:

I think the HP Pavilion problems above can be traced to the i810 and SDRAM timing. I've seen weird things on these which disappear when I test with faster RAM. Also, seen networking problems which happened there, but not with Intel chips on a PCI card.

I've run numerous other versions of Puppy, albeit from the 2.xx and later 1.xx families with no problems. IIRC, 3.xx and 4.xx moved up to the latest Xorg, which is when the video problem cropped up._________________hangout: ##b0rked on irc.freenode.net
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The time comes up 8 hours in front and I get an Xdialog error when trying to set the time zone. There is no /usr/share/zoneinfo

I really don't like the volume control, Rarsa's was much nicer... OK I see there's no tcl here either. I have a nicer one with a reasonably low footprint, will package.

Edit: I've just seen TkDif so I can't see a good reason for not using Rarsa's mini-volume.

You should only get the battery applet if running Puppy on a laptop.

BUG!!! Yes, /usr/share/zoneinfo is missing. This is due to the backporting from Dingo. I just replaced '0rootfs-skeleton-3.01' package with -0rootfs-skeleton-4.00', but the former has /usr/share/zoneinfo the latter doesn't. The reason for this is that it really belongs in the glibc package so that's where it is in Dingo.

Anyway, you can grab the zoneinfo directory out of the 0rootfs-skeleton-3.01 package. I've just put it into my 3.02 Unleashed, but not uploaded.

3.02alpha1 has all packages, well almost all, packages that are in 3.01 so Tcl/Tk is still there. So yes, you can use rarsa's mini-volume._________________http://bkhome.org/news/

Cannot test as CD burner bit the dust a while ago and haven't replaced it yet.

Quote:

Does '# modprobe eepro100' in a terminal load the module?

Nope. "FATAL: Module eepro100 not found."

prehistoric wrote:

I think the HP Pavilion problems above can be traced to the i810 and SDRAM timing. I've seen weird things on these which disappear when I test with faster RAM. Also, seen networking problems which happened there, but not with Intel chips on a PCI card.

I've run numerous other versions of Puppy, albeit from the 2.xx and later 1.xx families with no problems. IIRC, 3.xx and 4.xx moved up to the latest Xorg, which is when the video problem cropped up.

The thing to understand about 3.02alpha1 is that it is the same as 3.01. I have updated scripts and added some applications, but all the rest is as before. Same Xorg, same kernel, same modules, same libraries, same everything. The Network Wizard is upgraded.
I just checked on the eepro100:
# modprobe -vn eepro100
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.21.7/kernel/drivers/net/mii.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.21.7/kernel/drivers/net/eepro100.ko
...yep, it's there for me.
If you have a frugal install then it may be an issue with Puppy unable to find the zdrv file, so can't fetch the eepro100 module._________________http://bkhome.org/news/

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